Sorley MacLean

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title: Sorley MacLean
text: Sorley MacLean was a Scottish Gaelic poet, described by the Scottish Poetry Library as "one of the major Scottish poets of the modern era" because of his "mastery of his chosen medium and his engagement with the European poetic tradition and European politics". Nobel Prize Laureate Seamus Heaney credited MacLean with saving Scottish Gaelic poetry. He was raised in a strict Presbyterian family on the island of Raasay, immersed in Gaelic culture and literature from birth, but abandoned religion fo
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description: Scottish poet (1911 – 1996)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorley_MacLean
date created: 2002-10-31T07:39:22Z
date modified: 2024-09-05T02:11:56Z
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